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Name: Carlos Juan Finlay
Birth Date: December 3, 1833
Death Date: August 20, 1915
Place of Birth: Camagüey Province, Cuba
Place of Death: Havana, Cuba
Nationality: Cuban
Gender: Male
Occupations: physician, epidemiologist

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Carlos Juan Finlay was a Cuban physician and biologist, who, in 1881, suggested that yellow fever, an acute febrile illness fatal to half its victims, was transmitted by mosquitoes. His theory, confirmed in 1900 by the American surgeon Walter Reed, led...
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The Cuban physician and epidemiologist Carlos Juan Finlay (1833-1915) discovered that certain mosquitoes transmit yellow fever. Carlos Juan Finlay was born in Camagüey Province on Dec. 3, 1833, of a Scottish father and a French mother. He spent...


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1833-1915 Cuban Physician, Epidemiologist and Public Health Reformer Although the American physician Walter Reed (1851-1902) is generally associated with the discovery of the means of transmission of yellow fever, it was the Cuban physician Carlos Juan...
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Carlos Juan Finlay (December 3 1833 – August 20 1915, Havana), was a Cuban physician and scientist. Finlay was born Juan Carlos Finlay in Puerto Principe, Cuba of French and Scottish descent. He changed his name to Carlos Juan Finlay later in his...


 

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